A Waterloo Region Record blog on the Kitchener Rangers

February 12, 2014

Landeskog fulfills dream

Some more Rangers' related news from Sochi that I thought I'd pass along.

I had time to catch up with former captain Gabriel Landeskog with team Sweden earlier this week and he's obviously pretty pumped to be here.

He has dreamed of representing the Tre Kronor since seeing them win Olympic gold in Turin, Italy in 1996. In fact, after the victory, the 13-year-old clipped a photo from the local newspaper of the team celebrating the win.

He has kept the momento with him ever since. He brought it to Kitchener and now it's in Denver.

It was pretty funny doing the interview. I was one of two non-Swedish media there. The other was from the Detroit Free Press. The Swede's have six Red Wings on the squad - Daniel Alfredsson, Jonas Gustavsson, Jonathan Ericsson, Niklas Kronwall, Gustav Nyquist and Henrik Zetterberg.

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Some more Rangers' related news from Sochi that I thought I'd pass along.

I had time to catch up with former captain Gabriel Landeskog with team Sweden earlier this week and he's obviously pretty pumped to be here.

He has dreamed of representing the Tre Kronor since seeing them win Olympic gold in Turin, Italy in 1996. In fact, after the victory, the 13-year-old clipped a photo from the local newspaper of the team celebrating the win.

He has kept the momento with him ever since. He brought it to Kitchener and now it's in Denver.

It was pretty funny doing the interview. I was one of two non-Swedish media there. The other was from the Detroit Free Press. The Swede's have six Red Wings on the squad - Daniel Alfredsson, Jonas Gustavsson, Jonathan Ericsson, Niklas Kronwall, Gustav Nyquist and Henrik Zetterberg.